Actinopteri - Jugulares - Hemerocoetidae
Full reference: W. W. Schwarzhans. 1980. Fish otoliths from the New Zealand Tertiary. New Zealand Geological Survey Report 113:1-269
Belongs to Hemerocoetes according to W. Schwarzhans 2019
See also Schwarzhans 1980 and Schwarzhans et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Hemerocoetes acanthorhynchus, Hemerocoetes macrophthalmus, Hemerocoetes monopterygius, Hemerocoetes pukunati, Hemerocoetes whiroki
Type specimen: Its type locality is GS 9700, which is in an Altonian marine sandstone in the Southburn Sand Formation of New Zealand
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of New Zealand (15 collections)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (4)
• Oligocene of New Zealand (5)
Total: 24 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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